Poetics of Animation

Paul Taberham is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth. He is the author of Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist and co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory, Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital, and Introduction to Screen Narrative: Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Animation Studies. A Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and a member of the editorial board for Animation: an Interdisciplinary Journal. His research approaches film and animation through the analytic tradition, with particular attention to cognition, narratology, and poetics.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. MotionChapter 2. The Twelve Principles and BeyondChapter 3. Performance: Key Concepts and DevelopmentsChapter 4. Performance: A New TaxonomyChapter 5. Character Design: Key DevelopmentsChapter 6. Character Design: Realism, Coding, AppealChapter 7. Mise-en-scèneChapter 8. CinematographyChapter 9. StorytellingChapter 10. SoundConclusionReferencesIndex

“By broadening the theoretical conversation around animation through poetics, the author positions it not as an isolated form but as an integral part of wider moving image practice and history.” • Dr Calum Main, University of Edinburgh“a highly ambitious book that offers readers a set of interpretive tools and areas of intense focus, which enhance aesthetic and experiential encounters with commercial animation and its diverse production techniques.” • Dr Christopher Holliday, King’s College London